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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
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I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.
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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
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As nations improve, so do their gods.
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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not want to be. As things are, however, the whole ghastly burden is suspended from me by a thread which I can cut in two with a penny-knife.
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.
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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
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Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?
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There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.
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A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for example, where would we be if iron were absent from the world: this is an old example.
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It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial.
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The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.
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As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.
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